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Enid Blyton only used notes for the School series. Never planned. At least not on paper.
Still most of us are more normal people.
Blyton and Asimov just used a portable typewriter. I have one. I'd hate to write a page. Also I might have 10 to 30 revisions. I adopted computer screen editing in 1981. I edited programs in the 1970s by hand punching replacement cards.
Spelling and Grammar checkers (on CP/M and then MS DOS) from just after the mid 1980s. It's part of why I regard EVERYTHING in the press about AI as mere PR. The Spelling and Grammar checkers have not progressed much, frankly they are rubbish compared to an expert proof reader. Google Translate is brute force and a giant "Rosetta stone".
Also I trained to be a programmer originally due to the idea of AI in SF, not realising it's mostly a macguffin. I suspect there is less real AI research now than when I did the last course in the mid 1980s on it.
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